The BritMums Blog

Mothers have it hard. I believe in a conspiracy theory that we are all injected, at the moment of birth, with something that stops us shouting from the rooftops about just how difficult it is raising children. A friend once told me that being a mother was like climbing Machu Pichu, in blistering heat, with [...]

Seema Thobhani is director of Kidz4Mation which aims to change the lives of millions of children worldwide by giving them the best basis for a fulfilled successful life. Here, she gives tips on raising confident children: Do you think your child would be happier and more successful if they were more confident? Parents who consciously and proactively help [...]

Worry. How much do you do it? How much is too much? Can you ever get the worry level right as a parent? I’m interested to know the answer, you see, because I just can’t stop. And from what I see in the newer blogs I read, I am not the only one. Every day [...]

Andrea Kirkby is a freelance writer who specialises in business, travel and culture coverage. In addition to her degree in English, she also has a degree in opera, edits the Campaign for Real Ale newsletter and writes frequently about hiking and pilgrimage trails. Here, she tackles an issue for parents when travelling and dining out [...]

When Joanne Mallon decided to write Toddlers: An Instruction Manual, she knew just who to turn to for assistance–her fellow parent bloggers. Combining her own experience with stories from other UK parent bloggers was no easy task but the amazing end product was well worth it! Here Joanne tells us about the experience and adds [...]

There’s no business like show business like no business I know! But our video bloggers ask if it is the right kind of business to be encouraging your child to tap dance, warble or pantomime their way into? Like Ruth from geekmummy.com asks, why would you encourage your child into showbusiness any more than accountancy [...]

Jax’s children were not among those starting or returning to school this September. They’re not at home because they’re poorly, or truanting. They are instead among an estimated 100,000 school-age children in the UK who are home educated*, a figure that is rising by 15% each year. Here, Jax from liveotherwise.co.uk/makingitup talks us through a [...]

Back to school needn’t mean back to the soul-destroying monotony of doling out cheese sandwiches each day, but nor should providing a healthy and innovative lunch box for your kids take over your life. Anything that requires overnight soaking or first thing cooking is clearly unsustainable…  Tasha from www.wahm-bam.org recently ran a competition to win [...]

Ellen Arnison from In A Bun Dance wryly notes, “have you ever noticed that there are certain bits of knowledge that are presumed to magically arrive with the birth of your first child?”  And isn’t that true? The emergence of innate knowledge that apparently appears just as you meet your first child has no basis [...]

One minute we have a whole six weeks of good intentions and playdates groaning out in front of us, the next we’re trying to find book bags under piles of abandoned projects and wrestling early nights out of the brood. But whether tomorrow is a return to the familiar school run or the (gulp) very [...]